20. Broad Partnership
Harahan Bridge Project Downtown Memphis Commission
City of West Memphis City of Memphis Crittenden County
Shelby County
State of Tennessee State of Arkansas
Memphis Area Transit
Union Pacific
Authority
22. The Short Version
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Electric Bikes
Advocates Elected Officials
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Union Pacific The Harahan Bridge Project
23. Main Street to Main Street Connector Project
Connecting Memphis, TN to West Memphis, AR over the Harahan Bridge
10 - Mile Multi-Model Corridor $30 Million Improvement Project
Editor's Notes
How do we get there
All these problems - - funding, communuity support, railroad, politcs…In 67’ there was discussion of reopening for auto traffic, as the Memphis Arkansas Bridge would get backed up. In 71’ there was a strong push led by a guy named Poppenhiemer In 75’ it was again proposed by MATCOG (MS. AR. TN. Coalition of Governments) In 99’ there was another effort. Cindy Buchanan, Marty Regan, Susan Jones and others had a meeting with UP.Benny Lendermon, and Larry Smith may have been involved as well.UP was emphatically against the idea, bringing a host of lawyers to the meeting to douse the fire.None of the Memphis folks involved know about the deeds of ownership. Darrell Eldred told me there was a group that looked at it quietly in the 80’s.He told me they knew about the deeds, but decided not pursue it.I found no newspaper articles and no one else has told me about this effort???
Garner resources and keep energy high!
Garner resources and keep energy high! – LOTS OF OPTIONS – if one path didn’t work…try another! Multiple steps for getting moneyTiger, State, CityPrivate findationsIndividual camapginsSmall donors – selloing plank by plank - like with bricks
In researching the project, we found the deeds of ownership for the roadways
Taking the Mayors to meet the CEO of Union Pacific, (owners of the bridge) led to Cooperation with the railroad
